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Big [If True] is a weekly show that tracks and exposes misinformation, conspiracies, scams, lies, frauds, and hoaxes, and delves into why they are so easy to believe.
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I and my turtleneck are a tiny part of this forthcoming episode on music and AI. Timely as we look ahead to Canada's AI and Culture Summit. + We covered this topic in our newsletter, The National Interest.
Yesterday, the mother of a Tumbler Ridge Shooting victim filed a lawsuit against OpenAI – the makers of ChatGPT. With growing concerns about product safety and product liability, we recently explored this topic on AI Chatbot Lawsuits. Watch our full episode about the topic here: https://t.co/kpi3PorVEP
The doctor is fake.
So are the studies.
The millions of views are very real.
Watch Jonathan Jarry speak about medical misinformation on @BigIfTrueTVO, Sunday at 8pm
https://t.co/DOyCTs9zFS
Is the doctor you're seeing online even real? Watch our full episode about doctor deepfakes this Sunday at 8 with the wonderful Dr. Margot Burnell from @CMA_Docs, @CaulfieldTim, and more: https://t.co/5a2hNRyEnm
Fake and deepfaked doctors are all the rage online... it’s part of a bigger problem impacting Canadians who told the @CMA_Docs they encounter health misinformation at least occasionally. We ask @UAlbertaLaw@UAlbertaSPH Professor @CaulfieldTim about it.
Happy Friday! ✅
Seeing our content for the first time? 👀 No problem!
Big [If True] is a weekly show that tracks and exposes misinformation, conspiracies, scams, lies, frauds, and hoaxes, and delves into why they are so easy to believe.
Link in bio 🔗 for our episodes and other special content! 📺Credits in the full episodes. 📸
Can you tell what's real and what's not? ✅ ❌
Generative AI tools like Veo 3, Sora, Grok, Nano Banana Pro, and Midjourney are making it increasingly harder to distinguish the real from the fake. If you want to learn how to cut through the noise, you have found the right page! 🔊
Disney has made a blockbuster deal with OpenAI and its app Sora - a billion-dollar investment that could revolutionize animation in Hollywood and insert Disney characters into public feeds... but will the technology also supercharge misinformation? We tried Sora ourselves: https://t.co/GkVzBIs9km
Matt Motta, associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, joined us on our episode about pet vaccines to unpack the current trends in vaccine hesitancy: https://t.co/umu56rmuUt
Sofia Rubinson and her team at NewsGuard prompted Sora to generate 20 videos based on false claims, and the model created visuals for almost all of them: https://t.co/umu56rmuUt
It's still unclear what kind of impact these changes will have on the platform, but in the meantime, think twice the next time you come across a polarizing post.
You might be surprised at where it came from.
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